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Social Sciences

Retaining Legitimacy in Fragile States: Key Insights

This issue of id21 insights – a collection of articles summarising recent research on fragile states – asks how can interventions in fragile states…

Environmental Conservation

Climate Policy Initiative: Forest Nations Tackle Deforestation

Tropical deforestation currently accounts for nearly 20 percent of carbon emissions that cause global warming. A group of forest-rich developing nations have…

Life & Chemistry

Fingerprint Testing: Detecting Drugs and Diseases Easily

As the team from the University of East Anglia in Norwich and King’s College in London report in the journal Angewandte Chemie, they have now been able to use…

Health & Medicine

New Insight on Insulin-Producing Cells in Diabetes Research

The research reveals that glucose plays a key role in enabling healthy beta cells, which secrete insulin, to develop in the pancreas of an embryo. Glucose…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

A new portable biosensor detects traces of contaminants in food more quickly and more cheaply

The biosensor is faster, more portable and economic than the expensive laboratory methods which are used to detect contaminants, while having a very similar…

Information Technology

Duolog Launches BitWise: SPIRIT Compliant Register Management Tool

“Duolog has been busy with developing BitWise as part of the larger Socrates Framework,” commented Ray Bulger CEO, “Our open standards approach makes it easy…

Social Sciences

Innovative Solutions for Coastal Towns’ Socio-Economic Issues

The conference, which builds on the initiative of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and the conference on rural areas held in Skegness in July 2006, will…

Information Technology

Enhancing Security with Satellite Telecom: Orbit & MediaMobil

The two companies are UK based satellite operator Orbit Research Ltd. and the German company MediaMobil Communication GmbH. They announced their intention to…

Social Sciences

Women in Peace Processes: Insights from Post-Conflict Studies

In a unique study of women’s security and participation in three post conflict societies—Northern Ireland, South Africa and Lebanon—researchers found that…

Environmental Conservation

UK’s biggest ever countryside survey starts this week

The biggest and most comprehensive survey of the natural resources of the British countryside begins this week. The Countryside Survey will be carried out by a…

Physics & Astronomy

Slicing the Universe with HARP/ACSIS – A New Look at Orion

Orion is one of the most famous and recognisable constellations in the sky. At its heart, it harbours a vast cloud of gas and dust, the Orion Nebula, which is…

Life & Chemistry

World-Class Bioimaging Unit Established at Queen’s University

Equipped and resourced to the highest specification, the world-class facility establishes for the first time a Core Technology Unit to support the use and…

Health & Medicine

Bali Bomb Insights Shape Mental Health Response to Trauma

Staff at the Royal Darwin Hospital – who treated many of the casualties – also received vital personal support from mental health nurses, especially as they…

Life & Chemistry

DNA Database Enhances Fish Species Identification Techniques

In order to avoid possible fraud in labelling, a number of different technologies have been developed in recent years to comply with the regulations of the…

Health & Medicine

Cow Protein Lactoferrin Boosts Treatment for Gut Disorders

A new study, published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology, finds that adding a bovine protein called lactoferrin to the existing treatment may yield…

Physics & Astronomy

First Observation of Uranian Mutual Event by Experts

The observation was made on the night of 4th May by Marton Hidas and Tim Brown, of the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope, Santa Barbara, California,…

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